Middlesbrough boss Gordon Strachan today signed Aston Villa midfielder Isaiah Osbourne on a two-month loan deal.

PROSPERITY cannot on its own bring about the just, compassionate and generous Ireland which society desires, the Archbishop of Dublin has suggested.

Two of the world’s longest-surviving octuplets have gone home from hospital, greeted by a crush of photographers, neighbours and curious onlookers gathered in a cul-de-sac where the mother will raise her 14 children.

YOU’VE heard it a hundred times: we’re losing sight of what Christmas is really all about.

Disgraced actor Isaiah Washington is fuming over a new TV interview in which he seemed to poke fun at former Grey's Anatomy co-star Patrick Dempsey for not sticking up for him in the aftermath of his gay slur scandal.

Ordinary Americans joined President George Bush and other dignitaries in Washington to pay final respects to Gerald Ford as the former US president’s flag-draped coffin rested under the Capitol dome, before a last round of funeral services and burial near his family home in Michigan.

Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh insists everything is fine on the set of the hit TV show one week after co-stars Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington got into a fight.

One of the five anti-war protesters accused of criminally damaging a US aeroplane at Shannon Airport has told a jury she honestly believed that her actions saved lives.

One of the five protestors charged with damaging a US aircraft at Shannon Airport has told the jury that "acting on the philosophies of Isaiah rather than pissing off George Bush" was the motivation behind their actions.

BURLY actor Brendan Gleeson has called on his coaching skills in the new soccer film Studs to kick a team of no-hopers into cup-winning heroes.

Burly actor Brendan Gleeson has called on all his coaching skills in the new soccer film Studs to kick a football team of no-hopers into cup winning heroes.

AT times like this that I have squirrel-ish tendencies. Sometimes writing this column can be painful, eking out significance from the often-dire fare we’re subjected to.